In the last episode (May 27), Andrew Thomson said:
> I'm trying to route all email to a domain to another mail server on my
> local network.
>> I've setup the following:
>> cat /etc/mail/mailertable
> domain smtp:192.168.0.8
>> What I was hoping for was that any mail to domain would be sent via the
> host mentioned.
>> When I then send mail, I can see that it picks up my entry, however it
> has issues..
>> May 27 11:20:51 host sm-mta[90308]: h4R1Koe0090306:
> to=<user at domain>,
> ctladdr=<www at host> (80/80), delay=00:00:01,
> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=smtp, pri=30364, relay=192.168.0.8, dsn=5.1.2,
> stat=Host unknown (Name server: 192.168.0.8: host not found)
Put the IP in square brackets; otherwise sendmail will try to do MX
lookups on the domain named "192.168.0.8". You can put []'s around
anything to force sendmail to talk directly with that host instead of
using MXes.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com